Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,576, Josiah Fuller, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Fuller, Josiah
S. 43,576
CONTENTS

7653
New York Josiah Fulton.
of Ontario in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Greene of the Massa. line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of May 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of Mar 1839 and sent to Judge Phelps Ontario County N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1839  18 21  93535 77 1/2 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1839  48
125 67
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
1210

Declaration of Josiah Fuller
May 14 th 1818
private Greaton's reg t Massachusetts line for three years
The Honorable Secy of War
Admiral

State of New York Ontario County } ss
On this 12 th day of May 1888 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appears Josiah Fuller aged 58 years resident in the town of Springwater in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war that he the said Josiah Fuller enlisted in the town of Great Barrington in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Cap- tain Watson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Greene in the Month of February 1777 for three years that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the month of February 1780 that he faithfully served the aforesaid three years when he was honorably discharged from service at Peks Kill in the State of New York that he resides in the latter at Bernis Heights in the State of New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said services Josiah Fuller Sworn to and dictated the day and year aforesaid before me Stephen Phelps

Ontario County ss
W Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Josiah Fuller did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of Nine Months or more on the Continental establishment and from satisfactory evidence I have no doubt of his being in reduced circumstances and entitled to the provisions of the aforementioned Act of Congress - And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony, taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress - Canandaigua May 14 th 1818
Stephen Phelps

The honorable the secretary for the department of war will please forward my certificate if allowed to Stephen Phelps Esq. Commanding officer who is my agent May 14 th 1861. May 14 th 1861
Josiah Fuller

State of New York } Ontario County } Clerks office }
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaigua this 5 th day of June A D 1818
Thos M c Naill

Cash of Josiah Fuller
(7653)
$155.50
(Apr 1819)

To the Hon. the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Ontario, holden at the Court House in Canandaigua, in and for said county, of the term of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty—
I, Josiah Fuller being an actual resident of the town of Springwater in said county, having been placed on the Pension List of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed the 18th day of March, 1818, do hereby, pursuant to the act in addition to the act above mentioned, passed May 1st, 1820, exhibit to said Court the following as a Schedule containing my whole estate and income, (my wearing  neccessary apparel and bedding excepted) that is to say:—
   One Waggon & 2 Horses, old, $ 65 —   two Cows & 2 Calves 30 —   1 Yearling Heifer 5 —   6 Hogs 20 —   1 old Plough 1 ax & 2 Hoes 4 50   1 Drog & 1 Set of Harness 13 —   1 Table 1 desk & 1 Trunk 5 —   6 Common Chairs 3 —   a few other articles of kitchen furniture 10 —   $ 155 50  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 20 th day of May 1820
Josiah Fuller
The foregoing exhibit Inventory sworn to in open Court May 26 th 1820

I, Josiah Fuller do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn this 20 th day of May 1820 before me, Stephen Bates a Judge of the Court. Pleas in open Court
Josiah Fuller
AT a Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court-House in Canandaigua, in and for the County of Ontario, before the Judges of said Court, on the 20 th day of May of the term of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
PRESENT—
Nathaniel W. Howell Moses Atwater Stephen Bates
JUDGES.
EX PARTE—
In the matter of Josiah Fuller a Pensioner residing in the town of Springwater in said County.
The said Josiah Fuller as a person placed on the Pension List of the United States, having exhibited a
schedule subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his necessary wearing apparel and beds and bedding excepted) in pursuance of an act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, passed May 1st, 1820; and having taken, subscribed and produced to this Court the oath or affirmation by said act required, and said Court having heard evidence of the nature and value of the property mentioned in said schedule and duly considered the premises, are of the opinion that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of One hundred and fifty dollars and Fifty cents, and they hereby order their Clerk to certify the same in due form.
Ontario County, Clerk's Office, ss.
I, John Van Epsen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario county, do hereby certify the foregoing schedule and copy of the oath or affirmation of Josiah Fuller are true copies of the original schedule and oath or affirmation now on file in my said office, and also that the above opinion and order of said court touching the value of the property set forth, is a true copy of the minutes of said court in the case of said Josiah Fuller a United States'
Pensioner.—In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 20 th day of May 1820
John Van Epsen CLERK

State of New York Livingston County ss
On this twenty eighth day of May 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for the county of Livingston in the State aforesaid which court proceeds according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount respecting a record of the proceedings of Sarah Fuller of the town of Springwater in said county and resident in the same town and county aged sixty four years nearly who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818 the first of May 1820 and the first of March 1823 that the said Sarah Fuller entitled for the term of one year some time in the spring of the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain John M c Kinstry in the regiment commanded as this deponent thinks by Col Glover in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the Corps until about ten months after, when being taken sick and unable to march was discharged from the said service in Albany in the State of New York, and I do solemnly swear that afterwards about the middle of the month of February 1777 that the said Sarah Fuller did again enlist for the term of three years in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Watson in the Regiment commanded by Col. Grayson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that I continued to serve in the Corps until the expiration of the said three years the term of enlistment when I was discharged from said service at Paterkill in the State of New York
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for the certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war

dated on the 15 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz one old Horse value twenty dollars one old trunk $0.50. one old Desk and table two dollars five old chairs value one Dollar and twenty five cents one tea kettle and one Pot and some other small Iron ware which is broken and cracked worth about four dollars two Barrels and one 1/2 Barrel tub all worth about two dollars one Eastern Milk pan 6 plates value two dollars 5 four Seats value Six dollars one old plow and one Drag Chain worth about five dollars and fifty cents and that since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property To wit Two cows have been turned out to pay for doctoring in my family & to pay other small debts, one Horse sold to pay for hired labor which debt was due at the time of making the former Schedule one Waggon sold for the same purpose
Two of the cows were sold to John Rees in the spring of the year 1821 and a note taken which was turned out to pay for doctoring
I owe to Jonathan Fuller in April 1823. to pay for monies which I have previously collected for him and used
The Waggon & 1 Horse sold to Josiah Fuller in Jan- uary 1821 for a debt due him for labor done by him for me one kettle or small Skillet & Horns worn out and destroyed. Some Kettles since destroyed the other articles have been worn out and destroyed

And further I do solemnly swear that I am a far- mer by occupation that I am unable to perform any labour of consequence my family consists of myself and my wife who is nearly of my age is infirm and by means of sickness is unable to work. our daughter by the name of Johannah Fuller aged 15 years is able to support herself and is in good health. And further that I am in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country and that I have no other family residing with me nor under age of 21 years or who are able to give me any assistance
Jonah Fuller
Sworn and declared the 28 th day of May 1823 before me in open court
Levi Hovey Judge. bos. Plus Livingston county
we the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Livingston do certify that we appraise the above schedule of property at the prices and values annexed to the several articles named and in the aggregate valued at $44.50-
28 May 1823
W. H. Corroll J. Riggs L. Gibbs Levi Hovey Jas M Nair
Judges of the court of common pleas in the county of Living- ston. done in open court the 28 May 1823

State of New York ) ss. Livingston County ) I, Sylvester Brown Clerk of the County of Livingston, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true extract from the minutes of our Court of Common Pleas.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Geneseo this Twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1833. Sylvester Brown

Josiah Fuller S. 32,708
His discharge from the 1 st Massachusetts Regiment dated Dec. 24 th , 1783, in the State of New York, signed by Knox M c Lean
and
Ralph H. Bowles Capt. & Adjt
has been removed from this claim and locked up for safe keeping.
J.S.C. Apl. 6, 1914.

43,576
INVALID.
Rev
am
File No. 43,576
Josiah Waller Rev Rev Mar
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 184
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York Restored.  Isaac Fuller , priv
Served 3 y rs from 1797 Sched dated 20 May 1820. Personal property $135.50. no debts mentioned
Sched: under Act Mar: 1823 dated 28 May 1823 exhibits Personal property to the amt of $44.50. no debts.
Account for the decrease of property. By the sale of 2 Cows to pay the Doctor's bills. 1 horse sold to pay for hire which debt was due at the time of making 1 st Sched. 1 waggon sold for the same purpose. The Horse & waggon were sold in 1821 to Isaiah Fuller. The
2 Cows to John Rees in 1821 & 1 Cow in April 1823, to Jonathan Fuller to pay for monies which he had collected & applied to his own use. 1 sleigh & harness worn out, some articles of furniture worn out & destroyed.
Claimant age 64 y rs . a farmer unable to do much labor. Wife "nearly her own age" Sickly. Daughter 15 y rs .
C. H. Bryan Geneseo Livingston Co. N.Y.
Letter to Isaac Fuller Nov. 2 nd 1821 Helenick's M rs Dec. 4 th 1825
Duplicate notification of restora- tion issued 4 Mar: 1824, and sent to Hon: Abner Hayden, S.P.R. Sept. 1819.

For duplicate notifi- cation of restoration.

State of New York Livingston County ss
On this 5 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four before me Horace Sherwood a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Livingston personally appeared Calvin H. Bryan who being duly sworn deposeth and says upon his oath that on or about the ninth day of June last past this deponent did enclose and forward five Mail dir- ected to the Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary at War an affidavit of Josiah Fuller resident in the town of Spengler in the county of Livingston and State of New York together with a schedule of the property of the said Fuller and the approval of the same by the court of common pleas of the county of Livingston together with the certificate of the clerk of said court by which papers it did appear that the said Fuller had enlisted into the service of the United States in the Spring of 1776 for the term of one year that his enlistment was under Capt John McKinstry in Colonel Glover's Regiment in the line of New York that he served nearly the whole of said term & that in February 1777 he again enlisted for the term of three years in the same service in the Revolutionary War that he enlisted into Capt John Watrous's Company in Colonel Grayton's Regt in the continental establishment and that he performed the services in pursuance of said enlistment, and it did appear by the said papers that the said Josiah Fuller claimed a pension in pursuance of the Laws in such case provided, and this deponent saith that he requested that in case a pension should

be allowed that the certificate thereof should be forwarded to the said Deponent at Geneseo. That some time afterwards this deponent wrote to the Secretary at War for information upon the subject and received a letter in reply informing the said Deponent that a Pension was allowed to said Fuller and that a certificate of the said Fuller as being placed upon the pension list had been forwarded by mail to me and directed to Geneseo. and this deponent further saith that no such certificate or notification has ever been received by this deponent and that this deponent has sent to the post office at Batavia the principal town in the county of Genesee and that no such paper or letter has ever been in that office and that this deponent has learned from the said Josiah Fuller that he never has received any such certificate or notification and further this deponent saith that he has good reason to believe and firmly does believe that the said certificate or notification has by casualty been lost and will never be found and further this deponent saith not Sworn & Subscribed the 5 th day of February 1824 C. H. Bryan before me Horner Sherwood J.P.
State of New York.
Livingston County ss
It is hereby certified and made known that Horner Sherwood whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time that the same

purports to have been taken a Sustin of the peace of the county of Leamington and as such duly authorized and qual- ified to administer oaths and take affidavits.
Given under my hand and the seal of the county of Leamington aforesaid. 5 th February 1824.
Sylvester Brown Clerk By. Augustus H. Mann Deputy

Sir
enclosed. I forward to your depart- ment the papers deemed necessary for the procuring of a pension in two cases. if any deficiency is apparent in the papers you will confer a favor by noting the same to me and it shall be corrected if possible direct your communications to me at Geneseo Livingston County N York
Yours &c
Dated 27th Nov 1843
C. H. Bryan
Wm J. C. Calhoun
Secy War U.S.
Tho: Willers papers filed with original claims

Cornwall Shriawase Co Mich.
Comm. of Pensions
Dear Sir Josiah Willie he being my Father served in the Revolutionary War five years and was honorably discharged and drew a Pension until his death He enlisted in the State of New York I believe He never drew any land nor has any of his heirs since I am now entitled to it - and what is necessary if so to entitle me to draw said Bounty land
Respectfully Yours Anna Willie